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Public Fellowship Info Session
Public Fellowship Info Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
Kate McDonald – The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
Kate McDonald – The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
Humans power transport. This is obviously true for the early twentieth century. It's easy to find images of rickshaws on city streets in Tokyo and other major cities in Asia. But it's equally true for the twenty-first century. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. Despite the continuity […]
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Public Fellowship Info Session
Public Fellowship Info Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
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Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
In his recent publication, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020), Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth […]
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Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
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Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Jess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence, BOMB, Aufgabe, and the art journal Parkett, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press, and lives in Los Angeles. More information about Jess Arndt is available here
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Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
Oradora Principal: Reyna Grande La galardonada autora de La Distancia Entre Nosotros ADMISIÓN GRATUITA para estudiantes (6th grado hasta la universidad) y sus familias Se ofrece almuerzo Sorteo Mesas de información Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés Keynote Speaker: Reyna Grande Award-winning author of The Distance Between Us FREE ADMISSION for students […]
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Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. […]
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Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
The Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism Veteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East […]
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Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
During the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists […]
Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam in America, race, culture, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Leila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR, covering […]
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Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. These efforts […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
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Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
In the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We've got to do better. But how? Join us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with […]
Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of […]
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement […]
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
The use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and […]
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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land […]
What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
Between Instagram, Facebook and TV, we're presented with more media and more stories than ever before. But how many of them really stick with us at the end of the […]
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“Free Men” Film Screening
“Free Men” Film Screening
Free Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other […]
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Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
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NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” […]
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UPDATE: “Unrest” Film Screening
UPDATE: “Unrest” Film Screening
2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction. Jennifer Brea's Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is […]
CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli – The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli – The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
This talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of […]
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Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017), was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and […]
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Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, […]
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CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones – Run With It
CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones – Run With It
Dee Hibbert-Jones' colloquium talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for Spring or Fall 2020. Hibbert-Jones will discuss the challenges, politics and aesthetics in making her upcoming film Run With It, a feature documentary that is entirely animated. Made in collaboration with Nomi Talisman, the film tells the story of De’Jaun Correia, a […]
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Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’”
Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’”
CREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam. The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series AMITAV GHOSH Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 7 PM Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Free & open to the public with registration Book signing after […]
Living Writers: Gretchen Primack
Living Writers: Gretchen Primack
Gretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She's the author of three poetry collections: Visiting Days (Willow Books), Kind (Post Traumatic Press), and Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple Press), and a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets […]
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Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
The East Asian Colloquium Presents: Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective Many commentators claim that China's ongoing global rise reflects a restoration of its earlier international prominence, while others highlight that China's emergence reflects distinctive characteristics of the country's current political leadership. In his new book, Making China Modern, Klaus Mühlhahn of the Free […]
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Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2020
Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2020
Every year towards the end of the winter quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a PhD alumna or alumnus of the department. This […]